Could playing games help you get a new job?

NEW YORK, NY – MAY 09: CEO of Scoutible Angela K. Antony speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 at Brooklyn Cruise Terminal on May 9, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Noam Galai/Getty Images for TechCrunch)

One San Francisco company has an interesting idea on how you should find your next job: play video games.

The company has $1.5 million in seed funding from Mark Cuban, and officially launched at a TechCrunch event in New York Monday. Rather than have you fill out a questionnaire to analyze your resume, the company, called Scoutible, has you play games to identify your strengths and weaknesses. Games, which can be played on an iOS or Android device, use psychologist-developed algorithms to test for things like mental processing speed, emotional intelligence, risk tolerance, and response to feedback.

To play, you just need to sign into the service using your LinkedIn profile. Once in the game, you play the role of a character on a deserted island, and go through a number of missions, including fixing a robot, cracking a safe’s code, and figuring out how to get over a lake of hot lava.

As games go, the graphics are pretty minimal, and more on-par with something you might have played on your Super Nintendo in the 80s rather than something you’d play on your PlayStation (or even your iPhone). At TechCrunch Disrupt (the event where it was announced), the founder commented that she thought people might play the games for fun, even if they’re to looking for a job. After attempting them for quite a while myself, I’m not confident that will be the case. However, despite the awkward gameplay and sub-par graphics, the games are but more fun than your average personality quiz.

Another issue: After 15 minutes of play I actually got stuck in the game. I had completed all of the mini-games, but it kept making me have the exact same conversation over and over again with one of the characters, and none of the rest would speak to me anymore. End result: I couldn’t finish. Could that have been another test? Maybe. Thank goodness I already have a job.